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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not FP, but:

I cut my kids and husband's hair.  My friend cuts mine, just a trim.

I use mama cloth.  We buy TP, but clean up with rags, not paper towels.  Cloth napkins.

I think she said that work buys their internet.

We grow our produce and can it.  Read hillbilly housewife, it is quite possible to eat well and cheaply.

I lived 25 years without a TV.  Still don't have one.  Don't miss it.....

Lots of people don't take meds.
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You must live on a farm. I have a large suburban garden and do a LOT of canning, but could never can enough on my 1/2 acre that my entire family could eat off of for a year.  Not to mention canned food is not exactly the healthiest way to eat-probably the worst thing one could do to veggies.  Also, sometimes certain crops in my garden fail because I use organic methods. What exactly are you canning that your family is eating?  The obvious tomato products...but do you have a orchards? Most canned veggies are pretty nasty and you have to have an ENORMOUS crop to be able to put anything up of significance.

Additionally gardening is not free of expenses, it can be quite costly, especially when having to get creative to keep the animals from destroying my large garden. As another poster mentioned, maybe you are lost, but most people on this board live in high density areas with either no lawn or very little and if they do have a lawn, it might not be best suited for a garden.  Its great that you are living on the range, but this is an urban crowd.

Don't take meds? Mosts people who have young childre encounter alot of illness.  You and FP are full fo shit.[/quote]

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